It's a spectacle-driven disaster movie that isn't pure escapism. It's got wanton destruction by the barrelful, but it makes every life - or death count.

As a crisp digest of a lurid true-crime story that sprawled over 10 years, the Netflix documentary Amanda Knox deserves credit for concision.

It's called The Magnificent Seven which marks it as a remake of a remake - the 1960 original Western lifted its plot from the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film Seven Samurai.

Director Tim Burton's adaptation of Ransom Riggs' time travelling, gothic novel about children with peculiar abilities is filled with immaculate costumes, imaginative monsters and an overall attention to detail that you don't get at the movies every day.

While you're unlikely to include Bridget Jones's Baby on your 'best of' list, it's certainly a fun Friday night film that will put a smile on your face.

Just when it seems the year in movies has already reached peak kid-in-the-wilderness, along comes Captain Fantastic.

It may be a rather perplexing premise, but somehow the chaotic gags and sharp script translates into a fun, sweet story about family and belonging.

Bridget Jones is back with a third instalment to the movie franchise with Bridget Jones' Baby. Joanna Hunkin and Laura McGoldrick went along to see if it could live up to the hype.

There's some remarkable live footage within Eight Days a Week, but it doesn't add much to Beatles lore, other than offering a toe-tapping two hours.

Pete's Dragon is a breath of fresh air for kids who've grown up on with animations and for parents who remember Spielberg's 'old school' classics.

I don't how to break this news to you, but I think Tom Hanks might be cursed when it comes to air travel. We've seen him survive a

Our favourite loveable ditz is back, and this time she's got herself up the duff and people are loving it.

Basically Sausage Party is a sniggering, dirty spin on the typical Pixar film, with the one big joke being its cartoons dropping f-bombs.

Blood Father heads towards an anaemic finish, but it offers plenty of pulp excitement along the way.

Tom Hanks sure suits the rank of captain. He was one in Saving Private Ryan and high-seas thriller Captain Phillips.

A cautionary tale about a high school teenager working out who she is and the dangers of being hardwired to the internet.

Bad Moms follows a group of frazzled moms in suburban Chicago who decide to throw away "having it all" in exchange for having fun and making time for themselves.

Well, it could have been worse. Like Absolutely Fabulous the movie bad or Mrs Browns Boys D' Movie bad.

There have been three previous Ben-Hur movies, as well as an animated version, a mini-series and a famous homage - Star Wars: The Phantom Menace - that ripped off its chariot race.

Alex Casey reviews The Shallows.

A fantasy adventure filled with heart and soul, and beautiful animation.

The 12th and latest film to be based on a novel by the austere doyen of espionage fiction, John le Carre, may be the least satisfying ever.

The Shallows is is a B-movie hoot big on suspense and curiously low on gore.

Blake Lively is stranded on a rock 180 metres from shore at a secluded surfing spot that also doubles as a feeding ground for great white sharks.

If you're after a cheap laugh you'll get one here, but these fabulous ladies are better off sticking to the television screen.

The weapon in this gripping and gruesome punk rock horror-thriller are many and various.

Plopping the beloved characters from the riotous 90s British sitcom in 2016, drizzling them in Champagne and celebrity cameos, and seeing what comes out the other side.

REVIEW: Never have I sat in a movie theatre and felt more of a sense of pride than when I saw this film.

This small and absorbing Icelandic film is much more affecting than its modest ambitions may seem to promise.

Review: This latest one takes what made the original Bournetrilogy special and squanders it with a hackneyed story of revenge and cyber surveillance.